Oil is the beauty elixir of the moment, and we don’t mean Pennzoil 10w-40 or whatever it says on the inside panel of my car door. No, it’s all about healthful oils with “good fat,” such as olive, coconut or sesame that people have been using in wholesome meals and also slathering all over their skin before bedtime, which may make them feel like a nocturnal salad but is said to result in radiant skin the next day.

Now comes news of another possible unctuous application — dental care. This mildly gag-inducing idea, featured recently on “Good Morning America,” is said to be an ancient tradition known as “oil pulling” and involves swishing a tablespoon of oil around in your mouth for 20 (yes, 20!) minutes (yes, minutes!) each morning before eating or drinking anything in order to “clean and detoxify” teeth and gums and even whiten your smile. Gwyneth’s been doing it, likely even during her “conscious uncoupling” (a.k.a. separation) from hubby Chris Martin, so you know it has to be slick.

Woo hoo!

“The Simpsons” has been on for, what, 200 years? And they’re just now coming out with a set of Lego Simpsons mini figurines? Well, it’s about time, and now my life is complete.

In the scheming, conniving world of perfect product placement — a plan surely hatched by Mr. Burns — the release is timed to coincide with a special Lego-themed episode of the show, scheduled to air May 4 on Fox.

Homer, Lego or otherwise, would surely be drooling over this. At Starkenberger Brewery in Tarrenz, Austria, beer lovers can visit a Turkish bath-style room with seven soaking pools filled with the equivalent of more than 25,000 pints’ worth of warmed-up cold ones, according to Thrillist.com. As with oil-swishing techniques, beer baths go way back (rumor has it Cleopatra bathed in beer while Mark Antony was off conquering empires), and are said to have healing properties (I wouldn’t be surprised if Gwyneth has tried it) as the steam of the baths opens the pores so skin can absorb the happy minerals, possibly pickling you in more ways than one. And when you get out, you can have a beer. Just make sure it’s not the suds you’ve been soaking in.

In a video clip recorded by a student, a psychology instructor at Orange Coast College told her class that the election of Donald Trump was “an act of terrorism” – prompting an official complaint from the school’s Republican Club.